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Originally Posted by areader  Possibly the knives were dwarf made as Bilbo got it from Thorin and were different altogether. Its probably not so much an error as a common belief about them. |
The two swords, Orcrist and Glamdring, and Sting were from the Trolls cave in the Hobbit and were made in Gondolin in the First Age. They were definitely made by elves.
Berens knife broke because he tried to get a second Silmaril and it wasn't his fate to get more than one of them.